Falconvertible

 

Haven't painted any tanks in a while. Leofa was kind enough to fix that for me!

This is his collection of Eldar grav tank hulls, plus enough turrets to make them turn into pretty much any vehicle his Craftworld could desire. I'm not going to claim I particularly enjoyed doing all the weapon options, nobody would believe that. The tanks themselves were a good challenge, though - big clean hulls in white isn't an easy bit of painting, and I was happy to get some practice in. 

Plus the chance to do some freehand on those big clean canvases! Three colour schemes - a green one, which has the longer hull that makes it a Wave Serpent when it wants to be:

A blue/chrome one, which matches one of the Harlequin skiffs I did for him a while back:

And a orange/yellow one, which I thought were nice colours. Maybe it transports Aspect Warriors, maybe it's just a free spirit. 

It's taken me a couple of weeks to get through all this, and now that I have I've just discovered that the back doors all open! Or they would, anyway, if I'd noticed this before spray painting the base colour on. Easily fixed with a bit of gentle pulling, and then I guess I'd better put a little colour on the ramps. Otherwise they were done like so:

• Basecoat - Grey Seer
• Hulls - Ulthuan Grey drybrush, Matt White drybrush, Nuln Oil in the panel lines, then Matt White layered carefully over the top again. Ye Gods, putting this on the transparent canopies was agony
• Underhulls - Thick layer of watered down Matt Black (which behaves pretty much like a cheaper Black Templar contrast paint), German Grey drybrush, Ulthuan Grey edge highlights
• Green - Warp Lightning contrast highlighted with Warpstone Glow, then Warpstone Glow plus Yellow 
• Blue/Chrome - a variety of Army Painter blues blended upwards towards white for the sky, then Leather Brown and Leather Brown plus White for the reflected land
• Orange/Yellow - Jokaero Orange layered upwards through Bright Orange towards Averland Sunset, or Averland Sunset layered upwards towards Daemonic Yellow and White
• Bases - Sand plus plastic offcut sprue bits for rocks, Rhinox Hide for the soil, Desert Yellow plus Agrax for the rocks with a Skeleton Bone drybrush and Deep Blue plus Ultramarine for the water, Army Painter Swamp Tufts to finish

The rest of this commission was a set of four characters. 

Howling Spider Autarch

Swooping Scorpion Autarch. Swooping Hautarch? Scortarch? I don't know.

First up, a pair of Autarchs. These are the new plastic kit, smashers both. 

Then we go a bit sideways, because it's Ynnari character time!

Lovely models, but yikes, are they fragile. Yvraine had lost her hair and her feathered headpiece in the post, and getting those back on was pretty tough. I couldn't even find all the blades for her fan, but I suspect I wouldn't have managed to get them back on anyway. Likewise the vanes for the Visarch's back. 

No cat for her, sadly. I'm not that sad, she was quite daunting enough as she is, thanks.

As members of a different part of the race, these two got their own colour schemes. The Visarch is pretty close to the official model (not as shiny, of course), and was done with a sort of red slapchop effect - dark red base, then white drybrushing followed with red ink. Yvraine is greens and purples mostly, but she was a holy terror to put a brush anywhere near. Tiny pieces kept springing off when I touched her with a brush. Scary stuff!

The last bit is some kind of portable shrine for an Aspect unit, not sure which. It's a nice little Egyptian-looking god in gold. 

Commission done! There's a game to play with this lot before they leave, but that's a week or so away. Back to my own stuff until then.